The Kinshasa Convention is an African sub-regional Small arms and light weapons (SALW) regulation instrument. Similar to the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) Convention, the Southern African Development Community (SADC) Protocol or the Nairobi Protocol on Small Arms, the Kinshasa Convention addresses the illicit trafficking and uncontrolled proliferation of SALW by providing a regionally harmonized set of control measures. The Convention contains provisions relating to the transfer, possession, marking and tracing, record-keeping and stockpile management of small arms, with a view to assisting States in adequately addressing the illicit and destabilizing flows of arms.
The Kinshasa Convention entered into force on 8 March 2017. Eleven (11) Member States of the Economic Community of Central African States (ECCAS), also participants in the United Nations Standing Advisory Committee on Security Questions in Central Africa (UNSAC), have signed the Kinshasa Convention: Angola, Burundi, Cameroon, Chad, Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, the Central African Republic, Rwanda and São Tomé and PrÃncipe. As of today, seven (7) Member States of ECCAS and of UNSAC, Angola, Cameroon, Chad, Congo, Gabon, the Central African Republic and São Tomé and PrÃncipe, have ratified the Convention.
The Economic Community of Central African States (ECCAS), with the technical support of the United Nations Regional Centre for Peace and Disarmament in Africa (UNREC) will conduct a legal analysis on small arms related national legislation and institutional situation in its eleven (11) Member States and elaborate a harmonized guide for the implementation of the Kinshasa Convention. The project will be implemented with the collaboration between UNREC, ECCAS and UNOCA with political support from the African Union.
Duties And Responsibilities
Under the overall guidance of the Deputy to the Director of UNREC and the directly supervision of the Project Coordinator, the National Expert will assist the International Consultant to:
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Evaluation Scores
Only those applications which are responsive and compliant will be evaluated. Offers will be evaluated according to the Combined Scoring method – where the educational background and experience on similar assignments will be weighted at 70% and the price proposal will weigh as 30% of the total scoring.
University degree at the bachelor level or equivalent in Political Science, Law, International Relations, Conflict Studies, Communication or other related fields:Â Maximum score 25 points
At least three (3) years of relevant experience in the field of SALW and armed violence;Â Maximum 40 points
The knowledge of the country is necessary;Â Maximum 35 points
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